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It appears that the process has gotten more simple, and it might not be necessary to use jmonkey sdk when converting the pretty common blender format files into j3o format.  Many 3D image warehouses 

Hello everyone!

It's been almost two years now that I bought a Orbbec Astra to replace the Kinect 360 on my InMoov robot.

Why? Because it is smaller, it can "see" at a closer range and most of all, it is powered via the USB 2 plug.

Finished the huge power cords and power supply just for having a Kinect.

Now that being said, how do I make this thing work in MyRobotLab?

Well, someone messed up and I didn't get the expected lump of coal.  Instead, I got some good person's Oculus Rift !! Sooooo excited ... perfect timing .. I can start doing remote telepresense with WorkE AND begin to explore WorkE's virtual mind with updates to the JMonkeyService ...
 

WOOHOO !! new toys to play with already !

I found this here  http://www.gurucycling.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Kinect-for-Positional-Data-Acquisition.pdf

And tried to represent it accurately in an OpenCVFilterPointCloud.java  with the following code

My latest ESP32/Nextion touch screen Weather/bus/train times project required a realtime clock.... however it has taken me quite a few weeks to find a good solid solution.
Firstly :-
....if you want to stay sane then avoid epoch time (best thing that happened in 1970's was "punk Rock" not unix count my seconds since birth)....rant over.

Kyle pointed me to Adafruits Animated Snake Eyes. The software can be used withot any extra hardware. I had a spare Raspberry Pi 2, so I installed it. Pretty cool. Depending on your choises during installation, you can get either a single eye, or two.

So I started a little Hack-A-Thon project over Thanksgiving. I initially was just connecting a single ReSpeaker Mic Array V.2 to a RaspPi running Ubuntu Mate and went through the tutorials. I also looked at a project called ODAS which had some pretty cool looking visualizations of Direction of Arrival and Angle of Arrival of detected sound. Unfortunately their visualization does not really run well on the PI. But... I am able to run part of the project on the PI and push the sound localization data to port on another computer. Also, I really don't need the visualizations.

It Worky(ish) ...